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A Nanticoke man jailed for public intoxication is facing new charges alleging he spit on a jailer and threatened to make her "watch and beg" while he murdered her entire family, according to court records.

Jacob R. Cartwright, 22, of 14 W. Kirmar Parkway, is also accused of threatening to kill a Wilkes-Barre police officer after he was removed from his cell for a psychological evaluation.

According to a police affidavit, Cartwright was being held on public intoxication and disorderly conduct charges Tuesday when he began screaming and jumping on a steel bed in a holding cell. Police tried to move him to another cell for his safety, and Cartwright spit on Officer Erika Oswald and toward Sgt. Joseph Mangan, police said.

Once in the new cell, Cartwright tied his T-shirt around his neck and the cell door, and police decided to take him to Wilkes-Barre General Hospital for an evaluation, according to the affidavit.

Officers removed Cartwright from the cell and, as Oswald was handcuffing him, he again spit on her, police said.

Cartwright began spewing a stream of threats and obscenities that ended only after police dropped him off at the hospital, according to the affidavit.

"Oswald, I'm going to find where you live and rape your family in front of you before I slit your throat," the affidavit quotes Cartwright as saying. "I know where you live and I'm going to put my .40-caliber in your mouth and blow your (expletive) head off."

Cartwright is facing charges of aggravated harassment by a prisoner and making terroristic threats. He had not yet been arraigned Thursday.

jhalpin@citizensvoice.com

570-821-2058, @cvjimhalpin

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